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Rehabilitation in the virtual age: Using VR to support patient recovery and reduce pain

03/02/2023

Rehabilitation in the virtual age: Using VR to support patient recovery and reduce pain Wednesday 08 February 2023, 1200-1300 Held online Join the Parent and Carer Network to find out about the work of Sheffield Hallam University’s Impact VR lab where SHU researchers are developing pioneering virtual reality (VR) technology in healthcare to support children and adults with rehabilitation from […]

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Ivan Phelan VR work recognised

04/01/2023

SHU researcher Ivan Phelan whose pioneering virtual reality technology in healthcare has helped amputees, burns victims and children with limb injuries to rehabilitate has been recognised internationally. Ivan Phelan, principal research fellow and director of Impact VR, has been named by The Games Awards in its Future Class 2022 list of 50 inspiring individuals who represent the ‘bright, bold and […]

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Pioneering VR technology developer, Ivan Phelan, profiled in Sheffield Star

09/02/2022

Ivan Phelan, Director of the Impact VR Lab, leads a team developing pioneering VR technology to support amputees, burns victims and those with upper limb injuries, has been profiled in the Sheffield Star. The feature covers how Ivan began his career in gaming and how he hopes to set industry standards for VR in healthcare. Click here to read more.

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Lab4Living and VR researchers at the Child Health Technology Conference

02/03/2021

This week, researchers from Lab4Living and the Culture & Creativity Research Institute are sharing their innovative children and young people’s health related research at Child Health Technology 2021 (CHT2021). The conference is organised by CYP MedTech, a co-operative set up by the National Institute for Health Research to which focuses on the development and adoption of technology for child health […]

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Wednesday 20 November – Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Lyuba Alboul (Senior Research Fellow) and Dr Louis Nisiotis (Senior Lecturer)

31/10/2019

Title: Fusing Virtual Reality, Robotics and Social Networking Technologies: Towards a New Type of Cyber-Physical-Community-based Eco-System. Speakers: Dr Lyuba Alboul (Senior Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University) and Dr Louis Nisiotis (Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University) Abstract: This project aims at developing a new type of Cyber-Physical-Social Eco-System (CPSeS) that would merge the real (physical) with virtual worlds interactively […]

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Prince Harry visits VR Lab to see prosthetics and rehab research

31/07/2019

The Duke of Sussex learnt about the Communication and Computing Research Centre’s latest Virtual Reality (VR) research during a visit to Sheffield Hallam University last week. Prince Harry was given a demonstration of a system supporting the rehabilitation of amputees by Impact VR Research Lab lead researcher Ivan Phelan and Maurice Lee, a prosthetics user who has been helping to refine the […]

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WEDNESDAY 12 June 2019 – Lunchtime Seminar with Ivan Phelan (Research Fellow, C3RI, Sheffield Hallam University)

03/06/2019

Title: Virtual Reality: How engaging content can aid rehabilitation and reduce pain Speaker: Ivan Phelan (Research Fellow, C3RI, Sheffield Hallam University) Abstract Virtual Reality (VR) technology is still in its infancy, but the technology is improving and becoming more affordable to a point where it will become a more mass-market device. Currently, the main market for VR is in entertainment. […]

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‘Life is Beautiful. Always.’ – VR installation in Sheffield results from collaborative work between painter Marcel Schreur and SHU’s Dominic Green & Danny Bacchus

29/06/2018

Image of 'Life is Beautiful. Always.' VR installation. Couresy of Dominic Green

A groundbreaking VR and Art installation at Access Space Sheffield Access Space Sheffield, the digital technology art gallery, hosts an exciting new VR based artwork this month. Access have taken a former city centre retail space on Fitzalan Square and turned it into a gallery space which is to become an interactive VR exhibition at the end of this month. The exhibition […]

C3RI VR Research is helping burns patients cope with pain

27/04/2018

C3RI research into the application of VR games to help burns patients cope with pain has been trialled with patients in Sheffield. Ivan Phelan and his team have designed a game which will test whether the use of virtual reality headsets can help patients cope with painful medical procedures. Patients were given a VR game to play while they had […]

Researcher Blog by Jonathan Saunders and Helen Grantham of CENTRIC: Unpacked Refugee and Virtual Reality at UNICEF Headquarters in New York

23/02/2018

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About the authors Jonathan Saunders is a researcher and developer based in C3RI’s Centre for Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC). Jonathan’s research focuses on the development of mobile, PC and serious games. He is currently working on the AUGGMED program as a serious games developer working with virtual and mixed reality solutions to remote, multi-agency […]

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